A "forgotten corner" of Bradford has received a £150,000 cash injection to boost the area.

Community facilities will be regenerated in Frizinghall from the new National Lottery community fund.

The cash will be used to employ two workers for three years to focus on tackling a number of problems, which have been neglected over the years.

Mohammed Afzal of Frizinghall Community Centre, said: "We call it the Frizinghall rectangle, like the Bermuda triangle. All the funding used to fly over us. This is a very exciting time for us."

The Frizinghall Community Partner-ship, a body of local groups, schools and churches, hopes to provide more services and activities for young people and the elderly.

A clean-up campaign, sessions aimed at bringing different generations together, access to health services and joint work with the police around drugs are in the pipeline.

Dave Rogers, chairman of the partnership, said: "There is a lack of provision for the young and old. We will now have more bodies on the ground to make more of a difference than we have before.."

Mr Rogers described it as the "forgotten corner" as it has fallen outside the boundaries for European Union funding and cash available for regeneration in Shipley East and Manningham.

He added: "I hope we can go to change the climate and way we can think of ourselves. We want to raise the profile of the area as a vibrant community. Frizinghall shares characteristics of those areas but has missed funding in the past. There are pockets of deprivation which are at least as acute as elsewhere.

"We are also a very proud community which deserves far more than it has received in the past."

Councillor David Ford (Green, Heaton), who is also a member on the partnership, said: "A lot of work was being held back because of access to funding. Instead of putting a wish list together in a vacuum, we can now put together a real programme of improvement."